Frank Quattrone
Frank Quattrone
Frank Quattroneis an American technology investment banker who started technology sector franchises at Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, and Credit Suisse First Boston. He helped bring dozens of technology companies public during the 1990s tech boom, including Netscape, Cisco, and Amazon.com. Later, he was prosecuted for interfering with a government probe into Credit Suisse First Boston's behavior in allocating "hot" IPOs. The case was eventually dropped. He was earning roughly $120 million a year during his peak at the firm. Quattrone...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
I did nothing wrong. I am confident that the investigation will show that.
creating and overseeing a flawed organizational structure that undermined research analyst objectivity.
created a structure under which not just investment bankers but also research analysts and sales personnel all reported to him, and all devoted their efforts to securing for him an ever greater share of Silicon Valley's investment banking business.
We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members.
Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.
When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.
We don't have sales trading, brokerage, capital lending - any of those kinds of things that got some of the Wall Street firms a little bit in trouble.
I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple.
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I thought I was kind of a hotshot because I had had two years of work experience at Morgan Stanley, and I was about to get my Stanford M.B.A.
I don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.
Don't go public before you can be public.
For over three years during this difficult ordeal, I have held my head high knowing I was innocent and never intended to obstruct justice.